Quotes About Logic

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

He [Ryan] narrowed his eyes. You know, Dr. Jones, I don't think you're pretending to be thick. You just don't get it. Yes, I want to live in this house. It's a good spot to raise children. Look at that, you went white as a ghost. God, that's one of the things I love about you. You're always so shocked when someone interrupts the logic. And I love you, Miranda, beyond sense.

I don't understand romantics. They make decisions based on feelings rather than fact. Then they're surprised when those decisions turn out to be mistakes.

Any denial of truth presupposes truth, so the existence of truth is inescapable.

J. dBudziszewski points out, "The motto 'Reason Alone!' is nonsense anyway. Reason itself presupposes faith. Why? Because a defense of reason by reason is circular, therefore worthless. Our only guarantee that human reason works is God who made it.

in order to find truth, one must be ready to give up those subjective preferences in favor of objective facts. And facts are best discovered through logic, evidence, and science.

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

Law of Noncontradiction.

Batman never questions the logic of letting a childhood experience dictate his entire life.

Every stupid thing in the world, decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer, makes perfect sense, not because you're any smarter, but because the smart part of your brain's on vacation.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

He says that children live on the edge of madness, that their behavior, apparently unmotivated, shares the same dream logic as crazy people's. I see what he means, and because I've learned to be patient with children, to tease out the logic that's always somewhere there, and irrefutable once explained, I've come to understand that grown-ups, mad or sane, ought really to be accorded the same respect. In this sense, nobody is actually crazy, just not understood.